We will fight for farmers whether it is for 100 days or 100 years: Priyanka Gandhi

She said PM Modi could have cleared dues of the cane farmers with money he spent on buying his planes

Continuing her tirade against prime minister Narendra Modi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday accused him of 'humiliating' the farmers by calling them 'parasites' and exhorted the farmers to take their protest to every village in the country.

She also vowed to continue to extend support to the farmers' protest against the new farm laws.

''We will keep supporting you (farmers) whether its 100 days or 100 years,'' Priyanka said while addressing a 'Kisan mahapanchayat' in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district, about 500 kilometres from Lucknow.

Priyanka, who reached the venue of the 'mahapanchayat' at Kaili village in the district riding a tractor, said that the prime minister could have cleared the dues of the cane farmers with the money he spent on buying planes for himself.

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''The farmers were humiliated...they were called parasites....no member of the ruling party stood, when Rahul Gandhi asked for observing silence over the deaths of farmers,'' she said.

The Congress leader said that the new farm laws would force the government 'mandis' to close. ''Private mandis will remain open....the minimum support price (MSP) system will also be abolished...the farmers will be forced to sell their produce to the industrialists,'' Priyanka said.

She also likened the new farm laws to the laws enacted by the British regime to exploit the people.

It was the fifth 'kisan mahapanchayat' to be addressed by the Congress leader. She had earlier addressed similar meetings of the farmers at Saharanpur, Bijnore, Muzaffarnagar and some other places in the state.